Free diabetes self-management workshops offered in Pleasantville – Shore News Today

PLEASANTVILLE Quality Insights Quality Innovation Network, supported locally by Healthcare Quality Strategies Inc., is partnering with Pleasantville to provide free diabetes workshops as part of the Everyone with Diabetes Counts program.

The EDC program is a national initiative of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.

The program offers free self-management workshops for people with Medicare who have diabetes, their family members and caregivers.

The free workshops follow the Stanford University Diabetes Self-Management Program.

The workshops are designed to help individuals learn how to manage their diabetes and take control of their health through behavior modification and coping techniques. Participants will learn about diabetes and its risks, preventing complications, the importance of healthy eating, the role of exercise, how to deal with stress and difficult emotions, managing medications, effective communication with healthcare providers, and much more.

This free six-week workshop will be offered at the Pleasantville Branch Library, 33 Martin Luther King Jr. Ave.

Workshops are 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Tuesdays from April 11 to May 16.

Everyone must register by the second workshop session.

Each participant, one per household, will receive a free book, Living a Healthy Life with Chronic Conditions at the second workshop session.

For information or to register, call Jarmaine Williams at 732-955-8168. Visit http://www.qualityinsights-qin.org to learn more about Quality Insights Quality Innovation Network, or to read real success stories about people with diabetes in New Jersey who have completed this program and made motivational improvements to their health and lives.

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